# Prime Target (TV series)

Prime Target is a thriller tv series created by Steve Thompson and starring Leo Woodall as a mathematician. It premiered on Apple TV+ on 22 January 2025, consisting of 8 episodes.

## Synopsis

Edward Brooks is analyzing prime numbers at Cambridge University. He is being monitored by NSA agents like Taylah Sanders. Brooks' professor warns him off the project before being killed.
When Sanders' colleagues are executed, she finds Brooks and helps keep him alive. They travel to Baghdad to continue his research. Sanders finds that her supervisor has approved Brooks' assassination. Brooks is able to develop a prime finder that will aid codebreaking.
Brooks realizes that Professor James Alderman has been the one ruthlessly pursuing the prime finder and will keep ordering killings in order to find it. Brooks kills him and goes on the run while Sanders faces the police.

## Cast
### Main

* Leo Woodall as Edward Brooks, a mathematics student at Cambridge University
* Quintessa Swindell as Taylah Sanders, an NSA agent remotely spying on various academics
* Sidse Babett Knudsen as Professor Andrea Lavin, Robert Mallinder's wife, an archaeologist and professor at Cambridge
* David Morrissey as Professor Robert Mallinder, a mathematics professor who died under suspicious circumstances
* Stephen Rea as Professor James Alderman
* Fra Fee as Adam Mellor
* Joseph Mydell as Professor Raymond Osborne
* Jason Flemyng as Stephen Patrick Nield
* Martha Plimpton as Jane Torres
* Harry Lloyd as Andrew Carter
* Ali Suliman as Dr. Akram Nizar

### Recurring

* Maanuv Thiara as Dr. Charan Nathoo
* Sergej Onopko as Bogdan Vlahovic

### Guest

* Daisy Waterstone as Fiona Carey
* Tim Faraday as Keith Wyatt
* Rod Hallett as Brian Brooks
* Tom Stourton as Ricky Olson
* Sofia Barclay as Safiya Zamil
* Tom Byrne as Tom Grayson

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | "A New Pattern" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 22 January 2025 (2025-1-22) |
| 2 | "Syracuse" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 22 January 2025 (2025-1-22) |
| 3 | "The Sequence" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 29 January 2025 (2025-1-29) |
| 4 | "Kaplar" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 February 2025 (2025-2-5) |
| 5 | "House of Wisdom" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 12 February 2025 (2025-2-12) |
| 6 | "The Last Link" | Brady Hood | Thomas Martin | 19 February 2025 (2025-2-19) |
| 7 | "Prime Finder" | Brady Hood | Selina Lim & Steve Thompson | 26 February 2025 (2025-2-26) |
| 8 | "The Key" | Brady Hood | Steve Thompson | 5 March 2025 (2025-3-5) |

## Production

It was announced in February 2024 that Apple TV+ had greenlit the series, created by Steve Thompson.
Principal photography took place in Windsor in May 2023, with other filming locations reported to include London. Filming took place in Cambridge in August 2023. Photography took place in Morocco, Paris, and Kent.

## Release

Prime Target was released on Apple TV+ on 22 January 2025, with the first two episodes available immediately and followed by one episode on a weekly basis until the eighth and final episode on 5 March.

## Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 46% approval rating with an average rating of 5.2/10, based on 41 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "(Goofy concept + likable ensemble) ÷ sludgy pacing = an attractive but mediocre globetrotting series." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 55 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.